Eduardo Peña Trivino
Guayaquil, Ecuador
The Assembly does not want to approve the increase to 15% of the VAT value for different reasons, according to the interests of the parties. Politicians take care of their popularity and consider that it hurts them to burden the people with more taxes. In the current case, on the eve of elections, it is more problematic. While the assembly members take care of themselves, the problem of insecurity is still there, with its insoluble essence. It is evident that the number of murders has decreased due to the excellent work of the public forces, and also because many of the hitmen and murderers are in prison, for how long? Lawyers specializing in the legal art will now have a job to manage legal rights and guarantees at their convenience to free some.
It is known that VAT is an indirect tax. This type of tax is not the fairest, because the taxed mass is the entire population, but it affects the poor the most. It’s true. But at the same time, security is also a need for everyone, without exception. We must all be protected from organized crime, rich and poor alike. The same as the tax. It is a logical consequence to infer from these two statements the justification for providing the State with more resources and improving security.
The twists they give to the simple problem are revealed, proposing escalated or postponed climbs. The expenses of mobilization and the salaries that must be paid do not wait. Otherwise we would go back more than 50 years when teachers and employees were paid their salaries very late.
The other sources of financing are direct levies with a special dedication to commercial banks and the most profitable businesses., among which are those selling food and medicine. Look at the list of those who pay the most taxes and you will see what I have written. It seems that some parties are washing their hands and waiting for the thirty days to pass for the law to come into effect without touching the project.
A few words about the query. The Constitutional Court It is made up of reliable judges who are knowledgeable about the law. There are some more, and others less, and it shows. She has not passed all the questions and has rejected four out of twenty. I don’t doubt that he is right. In any case, if such judges make mistakes, there is no one to correct them or correct their errors. Perhaps those who asked the questions lacked the prolixity that a legislator should have in the essence of the topics to be consulted and in the form and correct use of language so that the questions do not mislead those consulted. You have to know the laws and avoid redundancies.
It seems that with simple reforms to current legislation we could not ask a people whose enlightenment we are not very sure of. Without a doubt, some jurists consider that it is a mistake to trust legislators, in their knowledge and even in their integrity, because those in the recent past who extorted their own employees have not been exemplary.
I say this because whoever proposes a bill is a budding legislator who acquires ownership when his proposal is approved.
President Daniel Noboa and the Minister of Economy, Juan Vega Malo, in a screenshot of the national network broadcast on social networks on the afternoon of Monday, November 27, 2023.